Yeah, but even employer health insurance is unaffordable if you have a family and are making, say, $60k. Add on the rest of the family and the employee’s contribution then goes through the roof. And even then the coverage sucks.
Don’t have a bunch of kids and a wife if you cannot afford them.
We’re going from a $250 deductible (it’s been that way for a quarter of a century) to $6,800 next year. I bet we lose employees, and the problem is you can’t just plug a new person into a complicated manufacturing position because someone like a mold operator learns all the tricks over decades, not months.